Abstract

Forgiveness as a psychological process is a promising approach to integrate into couple counseling to help couples recover from serious relational transgressions (RT). And yet, there is still no consensus in the literature to better understand the processes couples must get through during couple therapy to mutually forgive each other. The aim of this paper is to conduct a literature review on forgiveness and couple interventions. To achieve this, a keyword search in six databases resulted in the retrieval of 35 references. Study selection and analysis were guided by a scoping review framework. Further, the majority of documented RT concerned infidelity. However, only 34% of the retrieved documents are empirical studies. From the whole corpus emerges the observation that forgiveness is a complex, iterative, non-linear process requiring significant investment from both members of the couple; it can be grouped into six subprocesses that are more or less sequential. For future studies, it would be interesting to validate if forgiveness processes differ according to RT experienced.

摘要

宽恕作为一种心理过程是一种很有前途的方法，可以融入夫妻咨询中，帮助夫妻从严重的关系越轨（RT）中恢复过来。然而，文献中仍然没有达成共识，以更好地理解夫妻在夫妻治疗期间必须经历的相互原谅的过程。本文的目的是对宽恕和夫妻干预进行文献综述。为此，在六个数据库中进行关键字搜索，检索到 35 个参考文献。研究选择和分析由范围审查框架指导。此外，大多数记录在案的 RT 涉及不忠。然而，只有 34% 的检索文档是实证研究。从整个语料库中可以看出，宽恕是一个复杂的、反复的、需要夫妻双方大量投资的非线性过程；它可以分为六个或多或少顺序的子流程。对于未来的研究，验证宽恕过程是否因 RT 经历而不同将是有趣的。